capias

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English

WOTD – 20 April 2012

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin capiās (“you should seize, you are to seize”), from capiō (“to seize”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

capias (plural capiases)

  1. (law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody. [from 15th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
      All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.

Usage notes

  • The term is mostly used in the singular.

Translations

arrest warrant — see arrest warrant

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) capiās

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of capiō
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